When a military plane is shot down in Bosnia, Team Scorpion must help recover its stealth technology before it falls into enemy hands. Meanwhile, Walter's sister takes a break from her MS treatment and spends time at the garage with Sylvester.

Sarah Huggins

Alan Sepinwall

It's a dumb pilot directed by "Fast & Furious" franchise caretaker Justin Lin, which means there are multiple car chases that kick ass, including one near the end that's as fun as it is completely ridiculous.

Ed Bark

Neil Genzlinger

Old-fashioned acting is too often replaced by the never-exciting sight of someone poking urgently at a computer. Scorpion tries to compensate for this with a high-adrenaline pace, but that can lead to its own kind of weariness.

Brandon Nowalk

Margaret Lyons

Scorpion tries to get action-heavy in its final act, with the brain trust preventing an aviation disaster at LAX, and for a brief interlude, the show has a glimmer of momentum--but it's undercut by how ludicrous the whole setup is, how unnatural the dialogue is, and how impossible it feels to care what happens to any of these people.